Richard Mondale Loc: Montana

Explaining the Constitution is not that hard. There was a combination of several influences, so please visualize the life the colonists were living. 1) They were spread along the shore. 2) They were second class citizens of England. And 3) They were participating in the most major period of philosophical investigation that has ever happened. Because they were second class Englishmen they were forced to buy everything from the factories in England. For them, shipping was a k**ler. The worst piece of junk cost about the same as the finest product available, so the ships from England were treasure ships full of wonderous things. The newest and best were immediately available in America. The colonists had the latest books from Burke, Montesque, and Locke. All of the classic were available, and the colonists knew how to read them in their original language. Cicero, Plato and Socrates were familiar to them. They were looking at thousands of years of Governmental Experimentation. Add to this the fact that they were all alone with no help from Europe, just second class status, high prices, and no permission to do anything but feed raw materials into England.
The people that did the most reading in the colonies were the ministers, so of course they would try to perfect and extend what they were reading from England and their sermons were published and read by everyone everywhere. By 1730 the question of freedom, full natural unfettered freedom was recognized to be undesirable because, what that would be, is anarchy. Some guidelines were recognized to be beneficial, to act as a frame work for the unfettered life. Then in 1776 the first comprehensive book of Economics was published, The Wealth of Nations. The table was set, and the rest is history.
The Constitution is intended to correct the tendency that Cicero pointed out for each of the three governmental forms to become tyrannical. The three forms are Monarchy, Autocracy, and Democracy. They can each devolve into tyranny, unless they can’t. So how do you stop them? What the Constitutional Congress decided to do is take the Spheres of Endeavor that are needed for any entity to live and be a success, and split them up. They put the Executive ones in the Executive Branch. Others they put in the Congress. Then they did something really neat. They specified that there should be a separate branch for Good Judgement. Well, the Congress got the Legislative powers here in listed, but where.
George Washington upon his retirement said that the Constitutional Spheres should not be allowed to be moved around. That they had put them carefully where they wanted them, and that letting them be move, from one branch to another, the freedoms of the people would suffer, and do not let them all end up in one office because that is a guarantee of Tyranny. So what are these Constitutional Spheres?
The Spheres of Endeavor that Constitute a well rounded individual are what the Constitution was named after. They are the footer at the bottom of the foundation wall. They are as follows: 1) You have to be able to think and plan what to do. 2) You have to be able to get what you need, and have the sk**ls to use them. And 3) You have to be able to pay for it all.
The body of the Constitution is broken into seven Articles. The first three describe the three Branches of the Government. The fourth talks about the states. The fifth deals with amendments. The sixth talks about several things and the seventh defined ratification, which was done. All of that is pretty negotiable. If you maintain the original division of Spheres the structure of one branch or the other can be remodeled.
The situation we find ourselves in now has two problems. The easy one is that the Spheres were traded between the President and Congress. Article One Section 7 says that the Congress can do four actions: write Bills (to Raise Revenue), Orders, Resolutions, and V**es. These amount to two of the Constitutional Spheres. If you raise revenue, you can pay for things. Jefferson confirmed that Congress has this power. He said We took the power to declare war away from the President and gave it to the Congress, “from those who can Spend; to those who can pay.” Spending is an Executive Power.
Orders are Command and Control. Resolution is Institutional Memory, and V****g is a great way to decide an issue. So, Congress is supposed to make the decisions, remember what works, and issue orders, to who? The President. So it works like this the Congress figures what the Government should do, then they put some money with it and send it as an Order to the President. He looks at it and says you want all of this for that little bit of money? Its impossible, you’re crazy, I veto this. That’s how it is supposed to work.
The Framers made a mistake. V****g is a great way to make a decision, but choosing who will Represent you, is a choice. You should look into your heart and empower someone with your v**e.

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